NEWTOWN, Pa. — For Republicans in the states, the political warning signs keep mounting: In Virginia, it was an electoral shellacking that nearly snapped their 20-year grip on the State House. In Wisconsin, it was a midwinter rout in a special election for the State Senate, fought in a conservative district.

A crash involving two tractor trailers shut down I-83 northbound from exit 8 to exit 10, Glen Rock to Loganville, for about five hours this morning according to Pennsylvania State Police. 511PA showed both lanes were open as of 8:15 a.m.. State Police said 60,000-70,000 pounds of cat litter were spilled ...

Sexual misconduct lawsuits filed against Pennsylvania state government over the last decade document a litany of lurid and abusive behavior. ... Included in the complaints were allegations raised by state police dispatchers, a mental health worker, a state prison guard and a university groundskeeper.

HARRISBURG >> Pennsylvania legislative Republican leaders say a Democratic justice's comments about gerrymandering should require him to remove himself ... By a 5-to-2 vote on party lines, the justices last month found the Republican-crafted 2011 congressional map violates the state constitution.

"It was so unexciting," said Peter M. Hopsicker, a professor at Pennsylvania State at Altoona who researches the philosophy and history of sports. "The NFL teams were so much more superior to the AFL teams. There was going to be no theatrical competition on the field. . . . It was so bad, the Super Bowl ...